That’s how my culture thinks?

For our fourth Intercultural Communication workshop, we explored how different cultures reason, regulate, and relate on a scale ranging from very rigid, facts based and individualistic to very loose, emotion based and collective. The material for this workshop came largely from my class Environmental Sustainability Across Cultures with Professor Peter Fordos. In the workshop we had representatives from Australia, the US, Columbia, Spain, and the UK. After learning about the different scales and seeing some examples of how the majority of people in a culture tend to reason, regulate, and relate based on the cultural values they are brought up with, we challenged ourselves to place the members of our group’s countries on the scales and then respond to where our countries had been placed. By the end of the workshop, we all gained new awareness about ourselves, our home culture, and the cultures of our friends in GVI. Thank you everyone for another great workshop!!!